Proxy

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Procuration \Proc`u*ra"tion\, n. [L. procuratio: cf. F.
     procuration. See {Procure}.]
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     1. The act of procuring; procurement.
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     2. The management of another's affairs.
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     3. The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact
        the affairs of another; a proxy.
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     4. (Ch. of Eng.) A sum of money paid formerly to the bishop
        or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by
        an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the
        time of visitation; -- called also {proxy}.
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     {Procuration money} (Law), money paid for procuring a loan.
        --Blackstone.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Proxy \Prox"y\, v. i.
     To act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of
     another. [R.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Proxy \Prox"y\, n.; pl. {Proxies}. [Contr. from procuracy. Cf.
     {Proctor}.]
     1. The agency for another who acts through the agent;
        authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a
        legislative or corporate capacity.
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              I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself.
                                                    --Burke.
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     2. The person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote
        for another.
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              Every peer . . . may make another lord of parliament
              his proxy, to vote for him in his absence.
                                                    --Blackstone.
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     3. A writing by which one person authorizes another to vote
        in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.
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     4. (Eng. Law) The written appointment of a proctor in suits
        in the ecclesiastical courts. --Burrill.
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     5. (Eccl.) See {Procuration}. [Obs.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  proxy
       n 1: a person authorized to act for another [syn: {placeholder},
            {procurator}]
       2: a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a
          corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at
          a corporate meeting

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  211 Moby Thesaurus words for "proxy":
     Australian ballot, Hare system, Indiana ballot,
     Massachusetts ballot, absentee ballot, advocate, agency, agent,
     agentship, alter ego, alternate, alternative, amicus curiae,
     analogy, assignee, assignment, attorney, authority, authorization,
     aye, backup, backup man, ballot, ballot-box stuffer, balloter,
     blanket ballot, brevet, canvass, canvassing, care, casting vote,
     champion, change, changeling, charge, commission, commissioning,
     commitment, comparison, consignment, copy, counterfeit,
     counting heads, cumulative voting, cure, deciding vote, delegate,
     delegated authority, delegation, deputation, deputy, devolution,
     devolvement, division, double, dummy, elector, embassy,
     empowerment, enfranchisement, entrusting, entrustment, equal,
     equivalent, errand, ersatz, exchange, executive officer,
     executorship, exequatur, exponent, factor, factorship, fagot vote,
     fake, figurehead, fill-in, floater, franchise, fraudulent voter,
     full power, ghost, ghostwriter, graveyard vote, hand vote,
     imitation, jurisdiction, legation, license, lieutenancy,
     lieutenant, list system, locum, locum tenens, long ballot,
     makeshift, mandate, metaphor, metonymy, mission, mock, nay,
     next best thing, no, nonpartisan ballot, nontransferable vote,
     office, office-block ballot, paranymph, party emblem,
     party-column ballot, personnel, phony, pinch, pinch hitter,
     pleader, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plenipotentiary power, plumper,
     plural vote, poll, polling, power of attorney, power to act,
     preferential voting, procuration, procurator,
     proportional representation, provisional, purview, record vote,
     referendum, regency, regentship, registered voter, relief,
     repeater, replacement, representation, representative, reserve,
     reserves, responsibility, right to vote, ringer, rising vote,
     sample ballot, say, second in command, second string, secondary,
     secret ballot, short ballot, show of hands, sign, single vote,
     slate, snap vote, spare, spares, split ticket, stand-in, stopgap,
     straight ticket, straw vote, sub, substituent, substitute,
     substitution, succedaneum, suffrage, superseder, supplanter,
     surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, task, temporary, tentative,
     third string, ticket, token, transferable vote, trust, trusteeship,
     understudy, utility, utility man, utility player, vicar,
     vicar general, vicarious, vicarious authority, vice,
     vice-president, vice-regent, vicegerent, viva voce, voice,
     voice vote, vote, voter, voting, voting right, warrant, write-in,
     write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PROXY. A person, appointed in the place of another, to represent him. 
       2. In the ecclesiastical law, a judicial proctor, or one who is 
  appointed to manage another man's law concerns, is called a proxy. Ayl. 
  Parerg. 
       3. The instrument by which a person is appointed so to act, is likewise 
  called a proxy. 
       4. Proxies are also annual payments made by the parochial clergy to the 
  bishop, &c., on visitations. Tom. Law Dictionary, h.t. Vide Rutherf. Inst. 
  253; Hall's Pr. 14. 
       5. The right of voting at an election of an incorporated company by 
  proxy is not a general right, and the party claiming it must show a special 
  authority for that purpose. Ang. on Corp. 67-69; 1 Paige's Ch. Rep. 590; 5 
  Day's Rep. 329; 5 Cowen, Rep. 426.